Lawmakers from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party approved draft legislation Tuesday that critics say could force the closure of an international university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
The legislative approval sparked protests by thousands of critics outside the campus of the Budapest-based Central European University, CEU — an English language institution of about 1,400 students from more than 100 countries. Thousands of university supporters also took to the streets of Budapest Sunday.
The bill requires 28 foreign universities operating in Hungary to have campuses in their home countries as well. CEU, founded after the 1991 fall of …read more
Source: Voice of America
